Guest Column: Hobby Lobby owners should win case

6:46 PM,
Mar. 31, 2014

Written by

Ken Starr

From humble beginnings in the 1970s in their Oklahoma City garage, David and Barbara Green launched what is now the sprawling nationwide commercial enterprise Hobby Lobby. Their company - now owned entirely by five members of the Green family - is at the epicenter of an important legal battle over the breathtaking reach of the Affordable Care Act.

At issue is whether - due to the Greens' deeply held religious objections - the Hobby Lobby owners have an enforceable freedom-of-conscience right not to provide several contraceptive methods (four out of the 20 ACA-required methods) to the ...